Chapter 8: The City of Steel
As soon as Chen Kai arrived home, he saw Han Xuening sitting on the sofa with a cold face, staring at him without blinking.
Being stared at by her uncomfortable, Chen Kai had no choice but to ask with a smiling face, "What's wrong?" ”
"Why did you come back so late?" Han Xuening asked.
Chen Kai glanced at the clock in the living room and found that it was already eight o'clock in the evening.
He didn't intend to hide it from Han Xuening, and said the truth: "I went to the Beast Master Association and applied for a job to purify the soil. ”
"I'm going to be coming back late for the rest of the year, so don't worry about me."
"That's ......" Han Xuening suddenly fell silent.
For a while, the two looked at each other speechlessly, just looking at each other silently.
Perhaps it was an illusion, Chen Kai noticed that Han Xuening's eyes were sometimes relieved, sometimes gloomy.
As an older sister, she should be happy for her younger brother's growth.
But at the same time, she will also feel sad that her younger brother has to run for life at a young age.
"The bluebird is cured?" Chen Kai was the first to break the silence.
He noticed that the egg on the table was missing, so he guessed that the effect of the advanced healing potion must be good.
"If it weren't for the potion you gave, it wouldn't have recovered so quickly." Han Xuening's eyes softened for a moment.
"This time you're safe to get the first place in your grade." Chen Kai was happy for her from the bottom of his heart.
"Not necessarily." Han Xuening's expression was a little solemn, "Some time ago, there was a guy who broke through to the sixth level of black iron. ”
"That guy is the third young master of the Li family, the first family in Songjiang City, and he was originally only at the level of the fourth level of black iron."
"But who would have thought that when the big exam was approaching, he suddenly spent 300 million yuan to buy a spirit grass to take, and he was directly promoted to two levels."
Black Iron Level 6......
Isn't this just one level higher than Han Xuening?
"Spent a whole 300 million, just to win a big test?" Chen Kai was stunned by this guy's entrenchment.
These people from big families really don't give the common class a way to live!
Obviously, the family already has a lot of resources, and they have to compete with them for the public resources of the school.
"The prize that the school gave to the first place this time, in addition to the scholarship, is also an S-level contract beast blue striped tiger."
"I guess he must have been eyeing that blue-veined tiger, that's why he improved his strength at such a cost."
The S-class contract beast is indeed a treasure bump that everyone wants.
Moreover, she is now in dire need of a new contract beast to fill the vacant contract slot.
No wonder Han Xuening has always been obsessed with the ranking of the first in the grade, it turns out that there is this relationship.
According to the current contract beast potential, they are F-class, E-class, D-class, C-class, B-class, A-class, S-class, SS-class, and SSS class.
Among them, the SSS class has the highest potential level, and the F level has the lowest.
Contract beasts with high potential levels generally have higher combat power, and the chance of awakening skills and talents will also be greater.
Among them, SSS-class contract beasts have never appeared on Earth, and currently only exist in the imagination of countries around the world.
SS-class contract beasts are currently only in the single digits in China, and their owners are all famous bigwigs.
For a civilian class like them, the S-class was already the highest-level contract beast they could touch.
Han Xuening suddenly sighed.
"Right now, that guy is not only of a higher level than me, but also has one more contract beast than me, and it is almost impossible to take down the Blue Striped Tiger."
After listening to Han Xuening's words, Chen Kai didn't know how to comfort her.
That's how the world is unfair.
Most of the beast resources are in the hands of those great families.
It is too difficult for the common people to get ahead.
………
The next day, Chen Kai came to the Beast Master Association as soon as he got out of school.
It's different from the last time I was here.
This time, his arrival directly made the young lady at the front desk get up to greet him.
"You must be Mr. Chen Kai, right?"
"President Xu Yan has instructed that as long as you come, you can leave directly outside the city."
"Please lead the way." Chen Kai nodded slightly.
Under the guidance of the front desk, the two of them came all the way to the rooftop of the topmost floor of the Beast Master Association.
On the remodeled tarmac, a helicopter is on standby here twenty-four hours a day.
After a few minutes......
With a shrill buzz, Chen Kai got on a helicopter and flew in the direction of the outside of the city.
The strong air currents blew his hair wildly, and the air inhaled into his lungs felt cold.
Looking down from a height of several hundred meters, the entire city is lit up like stars all over the sky.
Those lights are the most beautiful night in a city, and each point of light represents their own life.
"I went to work in a helicopter."
Chen Kai knew that he would have a special person to pick him up, but he didn't expect that people would be professional to this extent.
Rao is a person who is Chen Kai in two lifetimes, and he has never experienced such noble treatment.
I flew like this for about ten minutes.
A huge wall of steel suddenly appeared in front of Chen Kai's eyes.
The wall is about 10 meters wide and is made entirely of pure steel.
It wraps the whole city together and forms a city of steel.
The world outside the walls was barren and covered with a strange purple color.
The world inside the walls is drunk and golden, singing and dancing, and everywhere is full of bright lights.
The inside and outside of the city are two worlds entirely, separated only by a giant wall.
Seeing that Chen Kai was fascinated, the pilot piloting the helicopter explained to him.
"The purpose of this steel wall is to block the erosion of purple dirt, which can play a role in protecting the city."
"If the beast tide comes, this huge steel wall can also become a natural line of defense to protect the people in the city."
Out of the city, the helicopter continued to fly along a steel road.
Looking at the endless steel road in front of him, Chen Kai's heart was extremely shocked.
The pilot continued:
"The road is also paved entirely of thick steel plates, which, like the city's façade, is meant to keep the soil from eroding."
"Pure steel has strong erosion resistance, which can protect the highway and ensure the smooth operation of traffic."
"Of course, whether it is a city wall or a road, the association will regularly send a beast master to purify it, so as not to cause serious corrosion in some places."
The helicopter landed steadily on the steel road.
Many Beast Masters stood on either side of the road, summoning their contract beasts to purify the soil on both sides of the road.
When they saw a helicopter flying over, they continued to work unsurprisingly.
Like a raindrop falling on the sea, Chen Kai's arrival did not stir up any waves.
Contaminated soil and withered food crops can be found everywhere on both sides of the road.
This intuitive experience gave him a deeper understanding of the extent of food shortages in the world.
He had been living in the city until now, and had never had the opportunity to see the scenery outside the city.
If he didn't choose to go out of the city, I'm afraid he wouldn't know in this life that the outside world had become like this.
If it weren't for the fact that he and Han Xuening were both beast masters, they would enjoy the food stamp subsidy that the state gave priority to supply.
I'm afraid they won't be able to buy food even if they have money!
"Just two months ago, the problem of soil contamination here was not so serious."
"But for some reason, the filth that spilled out of Space Gate 203 suddenly multiplied, which made this place what it is now."
"All the wheat, rice, and other grains that were originally growing very well have died, and I am afraid that Songjiang City will soon usher in a great famine."
The pilot pointed to a gate in the distance with a flickering purple vortex, and said with emotion on his face.
Following the pilot's fingers, Chen Kai saw the purple glimmer dotted with stars on the whirlpool.
Sometimes bright and sometimes dim, as deep and charming as the starry sky at night.
A suffocatingly strong ominous aura emanated from there, extremely rich.
That...... It's Space Gate 203.